When we got there Tavares was already on stage, they were all there, Ralph Vierra Tavares, Arthur Paul Tavares, Antone Lee Tavares, Feliciano Vierra Tavares, Jr. and Perry Lee Tavares. . Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, they would later move to New Bedford, Massachusetts. They were inducted into the Cape Verdean Museum Hall of Fame in 2006. Antone Lee Tavares | Happy Soul Legend Birthday Antone Lee Tavares A.K.A Chubby Tavares Grammy Foundation, Best Album of the Year, Saturday Night . All six brothers attended and performed on stage together for the first time in 37 years. We proudly welcome Tavares as 2014 inductees into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame. [1] Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to The Standard-Times. The Grammy-award winning soul group featured Ralph Tavares and his four other brothers, Antone Laurence "Chubby" Tavares, Perry Lee "Tiny" Tavares, Feliciano Vierra "Butch" Tavares Jr., andArthur Paul "Pooch" Tavares. Send Antone Books Using Amazon.com. Ralph briefly came out of retirement to join Tiny for two tracks on a charity album sponsored by the Boston Red Sox to raise money to help continue sports programming in public schools. Send Antone a Greeting Card Offenders who are visited in prison by friends and family are significantly less likely to recidivate. Watching performances by such acts as The Contours, The Marvelettes and The Four Tops, Ralph was certainly impressed, but was also making mental notes about the future. Two songs from the sessions were chosen as the first Tavares single: Check It Out and The Judgement Day. The single took off like a rocket! RCA Records 8 x 10 promotional photo from the press package for Words & Music 1983. At first, as an underaged act, they could not perform in nightclubs and bars, but they quickly made a name for themselves on the New England teen scene playing high school and CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) dances, youth club sock hops and Portuguese times (heavily chaperoned mixers where nice girls could meet nice boys). One of the earliest known photos of the group shows six boys, all dressed in matching Fox Point Boys Club t-shirts.